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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Getting comfortable with acknowledging memorial gifts

Pamela Grow

How does your nonprofit acknowledge memorial gifts? Thanking in-memoriam gift donors, and notifying the family of the deceased can be a tricky situation. Should you include gift amounts in the notification to the family? Can you solicit additional gifts from in-memoriam gift donors?

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Habitat NOVA Converts Volunteers to Donors with VolunteerHub’s Salesforce Integration

Volunteer Hub

Habitat for Humanity Northern Virginia (Habitat NOVA) is on a mission to help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance to create better lives for themselves and their children through the purchase of their first home. In order to reach its mission, Habitat NOVA relies on both volunteers and financial donors for support.

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6 Ways to Improve Your Year-End Donor Cultivation

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In her previous role as Foundation Manager for the VRMC Foundation, she managed the annual giving programs, assisted and oversaw the annual budget and marketing plans, and managed a major gift donor portfolio of over 150 donors. Show donors how you’re putting their gifts to good use. Remind donors about matching gifts.

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Father’s Day Fundraising: 9 Ideas That Will Get People Donating

Whole Whale

Also, Dads can be notoriously difficult to find a gift for as there are only so many coffee mugs, golf balls, and ties one person can need. You can also donate an amount based on the Father’s age to personalize the gift more, and even have a little fun as a joke. Promote matching gifts. Make it easy to donate.

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How to Create A Holistic Nonprofit Digital Marketing Plan

Pamela Grow

Hone in on what you’d specifically like to accomplish through digital marketing, whether that’s recruiting more volunteers, encouraging more people to join your recurring gifts program, or increasing your number of followers on a platform. Jessica holds a master’s degree in communication from Virginia Tech. Measurable.

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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can have a high Cost Per Result, but if your donors are making large gifts, the return will still be worthwhile. His analysis of digital media and politics has been published by The George Washington University, The Virginia Mercury, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, MediaShift, and Parse.ly from the University of Virginia.

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Turning Fundraising into a Game: Groupon, Zynga and Care2 do it, Why Don’t You?

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Here are a few ways nonprofits are rewarding their fundraisers: Virginia Beach Bike MS – Bike shop gift certificates, VIP parking, a 30-minute massage and an invitation to their awards dinner await participants who raise over $4,000. Sponsor-donated items like bike tune-ups, massages and gift cards. Preferred parking spot.

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